C, Regie Cabico to Robert Creeley

Champion slammer and soft-spoken sweetheart Regie Cabico is editor of the Poetry Nation “North American fusion” anthology. You’ll find his poem “Tribute” at the Wired on Words site, and a number of poems, both text and audio, in Washington, D.C.’s Beltway Poetry Quarterly.

Physician, student of law, composer and poet, Thomas Campion was a Renaissance Man in the Renaissance. Many of his airs & songs are at Luminarium complete with sound files—“Followe Thy Faire Sunne” and “Beauty Is But a Painted Hell,” for instance.

Campion’s complete Observations in the Art of English Poesie is online at the University of Oregon’s Renascence Editions (now housed at Luminarium).

LA-based wackstered nuevo boho brainstorming poets on a commission rankle fervor with their poetry play-by-plays. They fly by night. S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, Mike Bruner, Mike Mollett, and Scott Wannberg—anti-heroes of the anti-Christic anti-freeze anti-anti antics. Danger site burps poetic.

Jim Carroll is a great poet and his Web site and fanzine listserv under the direction of Cassie Carter is homey and chockfull. A truth-teller and wordshaper of excellence: you love Basketball Diaries; search for Living at the Movies.

Three poems by this most beloved old man of contemporary American poetry are at the AAP site: “Letter to Denise,” “Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey” and “Endnote.” There are also two interviews with the poet himself in the Fall 1996 Writers Online.

More Carruth poems to read online: “Saturday at the Border” in The Atlantic Online’s Poetry Pages, “Emergency Haying” & “Ray” at Poets on the Line, No. 2 and “I, I, I” at Agni, No. 3.

At Rudy Negenborn’s site, you will find everything you need to know about the greatest of Latin lyric poets: an introductory critical biography, the Latin texts, and translations into 12 modern languages, including English & Estonian.

Chicana poet, professor and activist Lorna Dee Cervantes has two poems in our About.com Poetry library, “Palestine” and “Imagine,” and she also posts poems and musings on her blog, where she “opens her poetry into pixels—poetry, peace y xicanisma.”

Chaffin’s book is called Elementary, he edits one of the best Web zines, The Melic Review, and you can read his poems in places like interface and Tryst, where the poems come with an extensive interview and an essay, “Towards a New Direction in Poetry.”

Chandler has a lot going on: his Webzine Thunder Sandwich, poems in PoetryMagazine.com and a personal online collection called Chap My Ass. What an amazing guy!

An early exemplar of the Romantic poet (his biography includes childhood poverty and extravagant dreams, a faked suicide note, poems passed off as the work of a 15th century monk and the emblematic starving poet’s garret), Chatterton committed suicide at 17, but is still remembered.

Generally revered as the first great poet of the English language, Chaucer has stymied generations of students intimidated by his 14th century Middle English—the trick is to read it aloud.

Harvard’s Chaucer site offers glossed texts and a great library of source materials, collected for their courses but available to everybody on the Net.

Librarius has a chronology of Chaucer’s life in historical context and an edition of the Canterbury Tales annotated with a hyperlinked glossary.

Sandra Cisneros is famous enough to qualify for her own page in the Internet School Library Teacher Resource File, a good place for any reader to begin. Read three of her poems at Making Face, Making Soul..., a chicana feminist homepage: “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me...,” “Old Maids” & “Las Girlfriends.”

Briefly famous as “the Green Man,” Clare spent his last years in the insane asylum, “unfit for society after years addicted to poetical prosings,” and is now known as “the forgotten Romantic.” But there are a good number of Clare’s poems in the University of Toronto’s Representative Poetry On-Line, and John Clare Societies in both the UK and the US.

There is an ever-expanding library of John Clare’s poems at this English blog site—lovely use of the blog format to create a searchable archive of one poet’s work.

Jim Clark writes about Appalachia in poetry & song & has two books: Dancing on Canaan's Ruins (Eternal Delight Productions, 1997) & Handiwork (Saint Andrews Press, 1998). Hey, the guy had a poem printed in Rolling Stone!

Clifton is an American treasure. Her “cutting greens” & “homage to my hips” are among the text + audio offerings at the Academy of American Poets.

You can find unpublished work supplied by Cohen himself in the “Blackening Pages,” as well as countless other Cohen poems, songs, films, paintings, photos, chats, tour reports & memorabilia, all at The Leonard Cohen Files, an amazingly comprehensive site from Jarkko & Rauli Arjatsalo in Finland.

Todd Colby contributed a poem for the 1999 Labor Day holiday weekend here at About Poetry -- “void where prohibited by law.” You can also read his work at canwehaveourballback, La Petite Zine & Naked Poetry.

She is High Priestess of Poetry, her work a hypnotic blend of form and magic (...and we never use the word “magic”). Four of her “American Sonnets” are online at Light & Dust.

Gothic/Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) was, with his friend William Wordsworth, a founder of the Romantic movement in poetry, and a noted critic and philosopher whose influence can be seen in many succeeding generations of poets.

Look in our library when you want to quote “Kubla Khan.” A number of Coleridge’s poems are at the University of Toronto, where you can also find the great Victorian critic Walter Pater’s essay on him.

Someone, oh it was the New York Times, called him the “most popular poet in America” a a few years back, there was a huge industry to-do about his dealings with the wrong side of the independents, Random House v. Pittsburgh Press, and he was the U.S. Poet Laureate 2001 - 2003. Read the poetry, audio and literal, at his own site.

You can read more Billy Collins at Eye Dialect, in The Cortland Review #7 & at Poetry Daily.

He’s a Philadelphia poet who also works in the medium of correspondence. His “Dear Mr. President” is one of the pieces in our Poems for Peace collection. You can also read his work in Tool a Magazine, La Petite Zine & Tameme.

Laura Conway wrote, spoke & sang very fine poems when she lived in San Francisco in the 1980’s. After she moved to Prague, she was our European Museletter correspondent. Thanks to Stevie DeSaille, Laura’s 1989 Zeitgeist Press book, The Cities of Madame Curie, has made its way online. This is must-read poetry.

Cid Corman was a beloved & amazingly prolific poet, translator of French & Japanese poets, host of the first American poetry radio show, respected essayist and the independent editor & founder of Origin Press, which published a great deal of the most important new American poetry from the 1950s on. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi from 1958 until his death in 2004.

Four of Crane’s poems are linked to his biography at AAP & four more are collected at Poets’ Corner.

Michael Smith’s Samuel Greenberg site traces Greenberg’s influence on Crane in specific parallel lines in Crane’s poem “Emblems of Conduct” -- fascinating!

A remembrance of the death of poet Hart Crane, who was only 33 when he committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1932.

Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) was a leading light in several of the avant-gardes of the latter half of the 20th century, from Black Mountain to Beat & beyond. He was a poet of short lines, hard nouns & pure emotion, an influential teacher, editor & publisher.